Steve79

I’m literally about a 3min drive from your house. Welcome to have ago in my grand marquis and Buick roadmaster if you want

I’m literally about a 3min drive from your house. Welcome to have ago in my grand marquis and Buick roadmaster if you want

I’m literally about a 3min drive from your house. Welcome to have ago in my grand marquis and Buick roadmaster if you want

I’m literally about a 3min drive from your house. Welcome to have ago in my grand marquis and Buick roadmaster if you want

Not much to report on the Lexus apart from it being an absolutely cracking motaah. MPG is bad as expected but no worse than any other V6 SUV of the era. Been seeing around 25-28mpg on a run which seems to be the norm. 
@NorthernMonkey mentioned that thermostat might be a bit lazy as the gauge doesn't quite get to halfway but it looks like the stats fitted to these open at 82 degrees so it just may be normal.
The car had also been listed as non ulez complient which I thought was a bit odd since the MK2 RX300 are Euro4. 
I gave the ulez helpline a call on Friday last week to have a chat with them to see what they thought.
Clearly they thought I was right as when i checked today this is what it shows

Ha! Screw you Bristol City Council 🤣

As some of you will have seen, @NorthernMonkey willingly relieved me of my E46 330ci Convertible this morning and is currently back 'upt north'. 
Prior to this I had a BMW X3 which I loved and shouldn't have got rid of but impulses got the better of me. I've been needing a "sensible" daily for a while now as sailing the Buick is painful on the wallet.
I was discussing my need of a new daily with Neil @NorthernMonkey and he mentioned he had this which he was looking to move on and we worked out a deal.

If it looks familiar it's because it's been on the forum before. It's a Lexus RX300 SE-L which he had bought from @Neil clark with buggered airbag suspension on one side.
The bags had pin holes in them and new lexus items are £1500 a corner. So it's had the compressor and bags removed and coil springs fitted from an SE. 
@NorthernMonkey was kind enough to give it a service, new brakes and MOT before driving it down here this morning.
It's a fantastic car and soo comfortable. Got a nice exhaust note when booting it as well.
Only one pic at the moment as it's currently lashing it down but am very happy

As some of you will have seen, @NorthernMonkey willingly relieved me of my E46 330ci Convertible this morning and is currently back 'upt north'. 
Prior to this I had a BMW X3 which I loved and shouldn't have got rid of but impulses got the better of me. I've been needing a "sensible" daily for a while now as sailing the Buick is painful on the wallet.
I was discussing my need of a new daily with Neil @NorthernMonkey and he mentioned he had this which he was looking to move on and we worked out a deal.

If it looks familiar it's because it's been on the forum before. It's a Lexus RX300 SE-L which he had bought from @Neil clark with buggered airbag suspension on one side.
The bags had pin holes in them and new lexus items are £1500 a corner. So it's had the compressor and bags removed and coil springs fitted from an SE. 
@NorthernMonkey was kind enough to give it a service, new brakes and MOT before driving it down here this morning.
It's a fantastic car and soo comfortable. Got a nice exhaust note when booting it as well.
Only one pic at the moment as it's currently lashing it down but am very happy

As some of you will have seen, @NorthernMonkey willingly relieved me of my E46 330ci Convertible this morning and is currently back 'upt north'. 
Prior to this I had a BMW X3 which I loved and shouldn't have got rid of but impulses got the better of me. I've been needing a "sensible" daily for a while now as sailing the Buick is painful on the wallet.
I was discussing my need of a new daily with Neil @NorthernMonkey and he mentioned he had this which he was looking to move on and we worked out a deal.

If it looks familiar it's because it's been on the forum before. It's a Lexus RX300 SE-L which he had bought from @Neil clark with buggered airbag suspension on one side.
The bags had pin holes in them and new lexus items are £1500 a corner. So it's had the compressor and bags removed and coil springs fitted from an SE. 
@NorthernMonkey was kind enough to give it a service, new brakes and MOT before driving it down here this morning.
It's a fantastic car and soo comfortable. Got a nice exhaust note when booting it as well.
Only one pic at the moment as it's currently lashing it down but am very happy

Not much to report on the Lexus apart from it being an absolutely cracking motaah. MPG is bad as expected but no worse than any other V6 SUV of the era. Been seeing around 25-28mpg on a run which seems to be the norm. 
@NorthernMonkey mentioned that thermostat might be a bit lazy as the gauge doesn't quite get to halfway but it looks like the stats fitted to these open at 82 degrees so it just may be normal.
The car had also been listed as non ulez complient which I thought was a bit odd since the MK2 RX300 are Euro4. 
I gave the ulez helpline a call on Friday last week to have a chat with them to see what they thought.
Clearly they thought I was right as when i checked today this is what it shows

Ha! Screw you Bristol City Council 🤣

Not much to report on the Lexus apart from it being an absolutely cracking motaah. MPG is bad as expected but no worse than any other V6 SUV of the era. Been seeing around 25-28mpg on a run which seems to be the norm. 
@NorthernMonkey mentioned that thermostat might be a bit lazy as the gauge doesn't quite get to halfway but it looks like the stats fitted to these open at 82 degrees so it just may be normal.
The car had also been listed as non ulez complient which I thought was a bit odd since the MK2 RX300 are Euro4. 
I gave the ulez helpline a call on Friday last week to have a chat with them to see what they thought.
Clearly they thought I was right as when i checked today this is what it shows

Ha! Screw you Bristol City Council 🤣

As some of you will have seen, @NorthernMonkey willingly relieved me of my E46 330ci Convertible this morning and is currently back 'upt north'. 
Prior to this I had a BMW X3 which I loved and shouldn't have got rid of but impulses got the better of me. I've been needing a "sensible" daily for a while now as sailing the Buick is painful on the wallet.
I was discussing my need of a new daily with Neil @NorthernMonkey and he mentioned he had this which he was looking to move on and we worked out a deal.

If it looks familiar it's because it's been on the forum before. It's a Lexus RX300 SE-L which he had bought from @Neil clark with buggered airbag suspension on one side.
The bags had pin holes in them and new lexus items are £1500 a corner. So it's had the compressor and bags removed and coil springs fitted from an SE. 
@NorthernMonkey was kind enough to give it a service, new brakes and MOT before driving it down here this morning.
It's a fantastic car and soo comfortable. Got a nice exhaust note when booting it as well.
Only one pic at the moment as it's currently lashing it down but am very happy

Not much to report on the Lexus apart from it being an absolutely cracking motaah. MPG is bad as expected but no worse than any other V6 SUV of the era. Been seeing around 25-28mpg on a run which seems to be the norm. 
@NorthernMonkey mentioned that thermostat might be a bit lazy as the gauge doesn't quite get to halfway but it looks like the stats fitted to these open at 82 degrees so it just may be normal.
The car had also been listed as non ulez complient which I thought was a bit odd since the MK2 RX300 are Euro4. 
I gave the ulez helpline a call on Friday last week to have a chat with them to see what they thought.
Clearly they thought I was right as when i checked today this is what it shows

Ha! Screw you Bristol City Council 🤣

Much prefer what he left with me 🤣

Much prefer what he left with me 🤣

Much prefer what he left with me 🤣

Much prefer what he left with me 🤣

As some of you will have seen, @NorthernMonkey willingly relieved me of my E46 330ci Convertible this morning and is currently back 'upt north'. 
Prior to this I had a BMW X3 which I loved and shouldn't have got rid of but impulses got the better of me. I've been needing a "sensible" daily for a while now as sailing the Buick is painful on the wallet.
I was discussing my need of a new daily with Neil @NorthernMonkey and he mentioned he had this which he was looking to move on and we worked out a deal.

If it looks familiar it's because it's been on the forum before. It's a Lexus RX300 SE-L which he had bought from @Neil clark with buggered airbag suspension on one side.
The bags had pin holes in them and new lexus items are £1500 a corner. So it's had the compressor and bags removed and coil springs fitted from an SE. 
@NorthernMonkey was kind enough to give it a service, new brakes and MOT before driving it down here this morning.
It's a fantastic car and soo comfortable. Got a nice exhaust note when booting it as well.
Only one pic at the moment as it's currently lashing it down but am very happy

Much prefer what he left with me 🤣

Much prefer what he left with me 🤣

Much prefer what he left with me 🤣

As some of you will have seen, @NorthernMonkey willingly relieved me of my E46 330ci Convertible this morning and is currently back 'upt north'. 
Prior to this I had a BMW X3 which I loved and shouldn't have got rid of but impulses got the better of me. I've been needing a "sensible" daily for a while now as sailing the Buick is painful on the wallet.
I was discussing my need of a new daily with Neil @NorthernMonkey and he mentioned he had this which he was looking to move on and we worked out a deal.

If it looks familiar it's because it's been on the forum before. It's a Lexus RX300 SE-L which he had bought from @Neil clark with buggered airbag suspension on one side.
The bags had pin holes in them and new lexus items are £1500 a corner. So it's had the compressor and bags removed and coil springs fitted from an SE. 
@NorthernMonkey was kind enough to give it a service, new brakes and MOT before driving it down here this morning.
It's a fantastic car and soo comfortable. Got a nice exhaust note when booting it as well.
Only one pic at the moment as it's currently lashing it down but am very happy

Much prefer what he left with me 🤣

Much prefer what he left with me 🤣

Much prefer what he left with me 🤣

Ive felt the need for something more sensible as a daily runner and while the Buick performs this task admirably, 15mpg round town hurts a bit. I need something with a few more mpg's to lessen the pain. 
I found something which fits the bill whcih I'll be making a short trip to collect later today.
Updates to follow